Gavin Clydesdale Reid is a Scottish economist and past President of the Scottish Economic Society (1999–2002).
He was Head of Dundee Business School Abertay University (until 2018) and was Founding Director of the Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance and the Firm (CRIEFF) in the School of Economics & Finance at the University of St Andrews.
He is currently an honorary professor in the School of Economic & Finance at St Andrews University.